Oniye, Abdulrazaq Olayinka2018-07-232018-07-232011http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1040The paper address the role of counselling in overcoming povertyCounselling is an enlightened process whereby professional counsellor assist in facilitating growth and development among clients through an exercise of self understanding. Poverty is an age long problem which has characterized the developing nations. The effects of poverty on individuals and the society at large cannot be over stressed. For instance, poverty leads to ignorance, malnutrition, poor health, begging and prostitution, child labour, child-trafficking and other social exclusion problems poverty is also capable of setting stage for deviance. Counselling as an essential part of education, aims at assisting individuals to actualize their potentials in order to reduce and eradicate poverty, illiteracy, diseases, ignorance, prostitutions and other forms of negativity hindering national development. In view of need to equip individuals with the necessary knowledge and skills needed to contribute meaningfully to national development, this paper highlights the usefulness of counselling in alleviating poverty and offers some suggestions how counselling can be employed to reduce poverty in Nigeria.enCounsellingPovertyAlleviationArticle